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September 1st.--Few things journalizable have happened during the last
month, because Florence and the neighborhood have lost their novelty; and
furthermore, I usually spend the whole day at home, having been engaged
in planning and sketching out a romance. I have now done with this for
the present, and mean to employ the rest of the time we stay here chiefly
in revisiting the galleries, and seeing what remains to be seen in
Florence.
Last Saturday, August 28th, we went to take tea at Miss Blagden's, who
has a weekly reception on that evening. We found Mr. Powers there, and
by and by Mr. Boott and Mr. Trollope came in. Miss ------ has lately
been exercising her faculties as a spiritual writing-medium; and, the
conversation turning on that subject, Mr. Powers related some things that
he had witnessed through the agency of Mr. Home, who had held a session
or two at his house. He described the apparition of two mysterious hands
from beneath a table round which the party were seated.


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